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MoMA PS1 PRESENTS

GREATER NEW YORK

Greater New York

October 11, 2015

–

March 7, 2016

MoMA PS1 (Entire Building)

LONG ISLAND CITY,

October 5,

2015

—

MoMA PS1 presents

the

fourth

iteration of its

landmark exhibition series, begun as a collaboration with The Mu

seum of Modern Art in

2000. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of

emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area.

Greater New York

arrives in a city and art community that has changed sign

ificantly since the first version of

the

survey. With the rise of a robust commercial art market and the proliferation of art

fairs, opportunities for younger artists in the city have grown alongside a burgeoning

interest in artists who may have been overl

ooked in the art histories of their time.

Concurrently, the city itself is being reshaped by a voracious real estate market that poses

particular challenges to local artists. The speed of this change in recent years has stoked a

nostalgia for earlier perio

ds in New York

—

notably the 1970s and 1980s, and the

experimental practices and attitudes that flourished in the city during those decades.

Against this backdrop,

Greater New York

departs from the show’s traditional focus on

youth, instead examining points

of connection and tension between our desire for the new

and nostalgia for that which it displaces.

Bringing together emerging and more established artists, the exhibition occupies

MoMA PS1’s entire building with over 400 works by 157 artists, including

programs of film

and performance.

Greater New York

is co

organized by a team led by Peter Eleey, Curator

and Associate Director of Exhibitions and Programs, MoMA PS1; and including art historian

Douglas Crimp, University of Rochester; Thomas J. Lax, Associ

ate Curator, Department of

Media and Performance Art, MoMA; and Mia Locks, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1.

Considering the “greater” aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time,

Greater New York

begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was fo

unded in 1976

as an alternative venue that took advantage of disused real estate, reaching back to

artists who engaged the margins of the city.

Together, the works in the exhibition employ

a heterogeneous range of aesthetic strategies, often emphatically r

epresenting the city’s

inhabitants through forms of bold figuration, and

foregrounding New York itself as a

location of conflict and possibility.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Charlie Ahearn (b. 1951)+

John Ahearn (b. 1951)

Chantal Akerman (b. 1950)+

Sam Anders

on (b. 1982)

Richard Artschwager (1923

2013)

Robert Ashley (1930

2014)*

Charles Atlas (b. 1949)

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Lutz Bacher (born in the USA)

Fia Backstr

m (b. 1970)

Alvin Baltrop (1948

2004)

Rina Banerjee (b. 1963)

Morgan Bassichis (b. 1983)*

Kevin Beasley (b. 1985)

Gina

Beavers (b. 1974)

Gelsey Bell (b. 1982)*

Michael Bell

Smith (b. 1978)

Sadie Benning (b. 1973)

Huma Bhabha (b. 1962)

Dara Birnbaum (b. 1946)+

Mel Bochner (b. 1940) and Robert Moskowitz (b. 1935)+

Lizzie Borden (b. 1958)+

Robert Bordo (b. 1949)

Gregg Bordow

itz (b. 1964)+

Liene Bosqu

(b. 1980)

Amy Brener (b. 1982)

Ben Thorp Brown (b. 1983)

Rudy Burckhardt (1914

1999)+

Harry Burke (b.

1990)*

Scott Burton (1939

1989)

Abigail Child (b. 1948)+

Susan Cianciolo (b. 1969)

Shirley Clark

(1919

1997)

Todd Colby (b.

1962)*

Roy Colmer (1935

2014)

Sara Cwynar (b. 1985)

Mira Dancy (b. 1979)

Jaime Davidovich (b. 1936)+

Jimmy DeSana (1950

1990)

Vivienne Dick (b. 1950)

Andrew Durbin (b. 1989)*

Diego Echeverr

a (b. 1946)+

Terry Fox (1958

1981)+

Su Friedrich (b. 1954)+

Eckh

aus Latta (founded 2011)

Mary Beth Edelson (b. 1933)

Gregory Edwards (b. 1981)

Joy Episalla (b. 1960)

Loretta Fahrenholz (b. 1981)

Ben Fama (b.1982)*

fierce pussy (founded 1991)

John Finneran (b. 1979)

Henry Flynt (b. 1940)

Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972)

John Gi

orno (b. 1936)*

Ignacio Gonz

lez

Lang (b. 1975)

William Greaves (1926

2014)+

Jonah Groeneboer (b. 1978)*

Red Grooms (b. 1937)

David Grubbs (b. 1967)*

David Hammons (b. 1943)

Fanny Howe (b. 1940)*

Katherine Hubbard (b. 1981)

Peter Hutton (b. 1944)+

Elizabet

h Jaeger (b. 1988)

Ken Jacobs (b. 1933)+

Paolo Javier (b. 1974)*

Joan Jonas (b. 1936)+

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Jamian Juliano

Villani (b. 1987)

Angie Keefer (b. 1977)

Devin Kenny (b. 1987)

Eli Keszler (b. 1983)*

Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980)

KIOSK (founded 2005)

Manfred Kirchheimer

(b. 1931)+

Ajay Kurian (b. 1984)

Robert Kushner (b. 1949)

M. Lamar (b. 1984)*

Louise Lawler (b. 1947)

Deana Lawson (b. 1979)

Sophia Le Fraga (b. 1990)*

Barry Le Va (b. 1941)

Okkyung Lee (b. 1975)*

Simone Leigh (b. 1968)

Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) and Nancy Bro

oks Brody (b. 1962)+

Glenn Ligon (b. 1960)

Tan Lin (b. 1957)*

Eric Mack (b. 1987)

Tony Matelli (b. 1971)

Gordon Matta

Clark (1943

1978)

Lionel Maunz (b. 1976)

Park McArthur (b. 1984)

Adam McEwen (b. 1965)

Marie Menken (1909

1970)+

Wardell Milan (b. 1978)

eva Misevi

(b.

1982)*

Rashaun Mitchell (b. 1978) and Silas Riener (b. 1983)*

Yoshiaki Mochizuki (b. 1961)

Donald Moffett (b. 1955)

James Nares (b. 1953)

Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts

New York (founded 2011)

Raul de Nieves (b. 1983)

Véréna

aravel (b. 1971) and J.P. Sniadecki (b. 1979)+

Morgan Parker (b. 1987)*

Rebecca Patek (b. 1980)*

Sondra Perry (b. 1986)

Pharmakon (b. 1990)*

Howardena Pindell (b. 1943)

Seth Price (b. 1973)

Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934)+

Will Rawls (b. 1978)*

Nick Relph (b. 1979

)

Joyce Robins (b. 1944)

Bunny Rogers (b. 1990)*

Ugo Rondinone

(b. 1964)

Cameron Rowland (b. 1988)

Jen Rosenblit (b. 1983)*

Peter Saul (b. 1934)

Collier Schorr (b. 1963)

Nancy Shaver (b. 1946)

Judith Shea (b. 1948)

Gedi Sibony (b. 1973)

Hayley Silverman (

b. 1986)

Charles Simonds (b. 1970)+

Lorna Simpson (b. 1960)

Rosalind Fox Solomon (b. 1930)

Jack Smith (1932

1989)+

Kiki Smith (b. 1954)

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Greg Parma Smith (b. 1983)

Slow and Steady Wins the Race (founded 2001)

Nelson Sullivan (1948

1989)

Sergei Tcherepnin (

b. 1981)

Third World Newsreel (founded 1967)+

Stewart Uoo (b. 1985)

Stefanie Victor (b. 1982)

William Villalongo (b. 1975)

Keith Fullerton Whitman (b. 1973)*

Sue Williams (b. 1954)

Lebbeus Woods (1940

2012)

Nathan Donavon Wooley (b. 1974)*

Geo Wyeth (b. 19

84)*

Carrie Yamaoka (b. 1957)

C. Spencer Yeh (b. 1975)*

Denotes participant in the Film Program

Denotes participant in the Performance Program

CURATORIAL TEAM

Greater New York

is co

organized by

Peter Eleey

, Curator and Associate Director of

Exhi

bitions and Programs, MoMA PS1;

Douglas Crimp

, Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of

Art History at the University of Rochester;

Thomas J. Lax

, Associate Curator of Media and

Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art; and

Mia Locks

, Assistant Curator, MoMA

PS1.

The program of accompanying

Sunday Sessions

events is organized by

Mark Beasley

Guest Curator, and

Jenny Schlenzka

, Associate Curator, MoMA PS1.

Peter Eleey

joined MoMA PS1 as its Curator in 2010, and became Associate Director of

Exhibitions

and Program

s in 2013. Eleey has organized 20 exhibitions at the museum,

including premiere

presentations of Ed Atkins, Darren Bader, and Matt Connors, as well as

acclaimed surveys of

Huma Bhabha, James Lee Byars, Simon Denny, Lara Favaretto,

George Kuchar, Thomas Lan

igan

Schmidt, and Maria Lassnig.

Sturtevant: Double Trouble

opened last fall at The Museum of Modern Art and traveled to the Museum of

Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He also curated

September 11

, a group exhibition

organized on the occasion of the

tenth an

niversary of the terrorist attacks in 2011, and

oversaw MoMA PS1's expanded

presentation of

Mike Kelley

in 2013, which was the largest

solo exhibition in the

institution’s history. Eleey previously served as a curator at the

Walker Art Center and Creative

Time.

Douglas Crimp

is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of

Rochester and the author of

On the Museum’s Ruins

, 1993;

Melancholia and Moralism:

Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics

, 2002; and

“Our Kind of Movie”: The Films of Andy

arhol

, 2012. Crimp was the curator of the

Pictures

exhibition at Artists Space, New York,

in 1977 and an editor of

October

magazine from 1977 to 1990. With Lynne Cooke, he

organized the exhibition

Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 197

to the Present

for the Reina Sofía in Madrid in

2010. His forthcoming memoir

Before

Pictures

will be co

published in 2016 by Dancing Foxes Press and the University of Chicago

Press.

Thomas J. Lax

is Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at The

Museum of

Modern Art, where he recently organized

Steffani Jemison: Promise Machine

(2015)

Other

upcoming projects include

Maria Hassabi: PLASTIC

(2016);

Projects 102: Neïl Beloufa

(2016); and a publication on the work of Ralph Lemon (2016). Previously,

he was

Assistant Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where he organized

When the Stars

Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South

(2014);

Radical Presence: Black

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Performance in Contemporary Art

(2013), a traveling exhibition curated by Valerie C

assel

Oliver; and

Fore

(2012), co

organized with Lauren Haynes and Naima J. Keith.

Mia Locks

is Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1, where she has organized exhibitions

including

Math Bass: Off the Clock

(2015);

IM Heung

soon: Reincarnation

(2015);

Samara

Golde

n: The Flat Side of the Knife

(2014); and

The Little Things Could Be Dearer

(2014).

Before joining MoMA PS1, Locks organized

Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in

Los Angeles, 1945

1980

(2012),

with David Frantz,

at ONE National Gay & Lesbian

Arch

ives as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative. She previously worked at

the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she helped to

organize

Blues for Smoke

(2012) and

Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland

(2013), both with

Bennett Simpso

Mark Beasley

is a British curator and writer based in New York. He has served as a

curator for Performa, working with artists including Florian Hecker, Ed Atkins, Tori Wranes,

Frances Stark and Mark Leckey, Robert Ashley, Arto Lindsay and Mike Kelley.

With Kelley,

he curated the experimental music festival

A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality

(2009) and at MoMA PS1 organized a series of performances in conjunction with the

retrospective exhibition of his work in 2013. As a curator at Creative Time

he organized

This World & Nearer Ones

(2009);

Hey Hey Glossolalia: Exhibiting the Voice

(2008); and

Javier Tellez’s critically acclaimed film

A Letter on the Blind

(2008).

Jenny Schlenzka

is Associate Curator at MoMA PS1, where she oversees live programs

She has commissioned projects by artists including Trajal Harrell, Ragnar Kjartansson,

Marten Sp

ångberg, and Anne Imhof, and organized

MoMA PS1’s presentation of

Retrospective

by Xavier Le Roy (2014). From 2008

2012 she was Assistant Curator for

Performa

nce in the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern

Art, where she co

organized the Performance Exhibition Series.

PUBLICATIONS

In conjunction with the exhibition, MoMA PS1 is publishing a series of Readers that will be

released th

roughout the run of the exhibition. These short volumes revisit older histories

of New York

while also inviting speculation about its future, highlighting certain works in

the exhibition and engaging a range of subjects including disco, performance anxiety

, real

estate, and newly unearthed historical documents. The series features contributions from

Fia Backström

Mark Beasley

Gregg Bordowitz

Susan Cianciolo

Douglas Crimp

Catherine Damman

David Grubbs

Angie Keefer

Aidan Koch

Glenn Ligon

Gordon Matt

Clark

Claudia Rankine

Collier Schorr

, and

Sukhdev

Sandhu

concluding with a round

table conversation with exhibition curators

Peter Eleey

Douglas Crimp

Thomas J. Lax

and

Mia Locks

. The series is edited by

Jocelyn

Miller

Curatorial Associate, MoMA PS

Greater New York

is accompanied by a full schedule of films and performances throughout

the run of the exhibition. Film Programs take place in the Cinema; Performance Programs

take place in the VW Dome, 3

Floor Main Gallery, and other locations as n

oted. Please

check the website for details:

www.momaps1.org

PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

October

The Voice in Three Acts and Bathroom Songs

Sunday, October 11, 1:00

–

6:00 p.m.

With

Robert Ashley; Pharmakon; Gelsey Bell

M. Lamar

In conjunction with the opening of

Greater New York

Sunday

Sessions presents the work

of three New York vocalists and composers: the alienating and howled vocals of

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Pharmakon, the negrogothic doom spirituals and countertenor of M. Lamar, and

a rarely

performed work by the late American composer Robert Ashley, presented by experimental

composer and vocalist Paul Pinto.

The Voice

is accompanied by a work for the MoMA PS1

restrooms titled

Bathroom Songs

presented by New York soprano Gelsey Bell.

Part of

Sunday Sessions: Greater New York

. Free Admission.

Jen Rosenblit,

Clap Hands

Sunday, October 11,

12:00

–

6:00 p.m.

Monday, October 12,

12:00

–

6:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 15,

12:00

–

6:00 p.m.

Friday, October 16,

12:00

–

6:00 p.m.

Saturday, Octob

er 17,

12:00

–

6:00 p.m.

Clap Hands

is a mating call that reconsiders the artistic format of the solo in an ensemble

format to hail, disappear, disguise, displace, reveal and complicate a narrative of intimacy

that is not limited to pattern, ritual or husb

andry.

The work occurs continuously during

museum opening hours.

The Cringe: Art, Performance and Anxiety

Sunday, October

18, 3:00

–

6:00 p.m.

With

Ieva Misevi

and

Rebecca Patek

In the affirmative culture of the art market, where art is tolerated as

essentially

nonthreatening, what is the place and role of negative affects?

The Cringe

suggests some

of the potential gains of anxiety, embarrassment, shame and mortification through the

dark humor of two New York

based performers.

Part of

Sunday Sessions:

Greater New

York.

Tickets: $15; $13 for MoMA / MoMA PS1+ members.

Katherine Hubbard,

Notes from Utah. Notes on gray.

Sunday, October

18, 6:00

–

7:00 p.m.

Notes from Utah. Notes on gray

. is an ongoing site

specific lecture performance given in

conjunction

with sunset that explores the relationship between the human eye, the

camera and cognitive perception. The work considers topics such as landscape,

photography, subjectivity of vision, traumatic images and grayscale as a value system.

Morgan Bassichis

Me, But Also Everybody!

Thursday, October, 29, 7:00 p.m.

The first in a series of three evenings of practical, relevant, and somewhat moving stories

with Morgan Bassichis and guests.

Bassichis is a writer and performer whose live comedic

work explores his

tory, mysticism, and just like being alive.

His performances have been

described as "super intense" (by Morgan) and "out there" (by Morgan’s mother).

Tickets:

$15; $13 for MoMA / MoMA PS1+ members*

*Includes 2 drinks and delicious light fare courtesy of M.

Wells Dinette.

November

It’s Not What Happens, It’s How You Handle It

Sunday, November 8, 12:00

–

6:00 pm

Organized by

John Giorno

and

Mark Beasley

With

Harry Burke

Todd Colby

Andrew Durbin

Ben Fama

Sophia le Fraga,

Fanny

Howe

Paolo Javier

Tan Li

Morgan Parker

and

Bunny Rogers

Poet, visual artist, and originator of Performance Poetry, John Giorno is joined by peers

and an emerging generation of New York

based poets. Giorno’s poetic use of the

technology of the day mirrors our contemporary use o

f language, deploying twitter

phraseology with the fluid and malleable text of the internet. As poems and text migrates

from text box to text box and page to page: text and the staging of language is no longer

a form fixed by the printed page.

Part of

Sunday Sessions: Greater New York

. Tickets:

$15; $13 for MoMA / MoMA PS1+ members.

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1+2+3; Solos, Duos and Trios for Greater New York

Sunday, November 15, 12:00

–

6:00 p.m.

With

Keith Fullerton Whitman

;

David Grubbs

;

Eli Keszler

;

Okkyung Lee

;

Nate

Wooley

and

C. Spencer Yeh

1+2+3

is an afternoon

long event featuring six New York City

based musicians in a

choreography of solo, duo, and trio performances.

Five decades after the changes wrought by the emergence of free jazz and improvised

music, improvisation

remains crucial to the working methodology of all stripes of

musicians prone to experimentation. As musician David Grubbs has it: "Real time is cheap,

and improvisers are by nature expansive."

Part of

Sunday Sessions: Greater New York.

Tickets: $15; $13 f

or MoMA / MoMA PS1+ members.

December

Jonah

Groeneboer,

Double Mouth Feedback

Thursday, December 10

–

Monday, December 28,

12:00

–

6:00 p.m.

Double Mouth Feedback

is a multi

channel sound installation by

Jonah Groeneboer

, in

collaboration with

Bruno Covi

ello

. The source material for this project is generated from

vocal recordings from participants including

Jeanine Oleson

Malik Gaines

Nath Ann

Carrera

, and

Raul De Nieves,

among others. The recordings were created in response to a

series of prompts askin

g the participants to manifest their experience of gender through

vocal sound.

Morgan Bassichis, Me, But Also Everybody!

Thursday, December 10, 7:00 p.m.

The second in a series of three evenings of practical, relevant, and somewhat moving

stories with Mo

rgan Bassichis and guests.

Bassichis is a writer and performer whose live

comedic work explores history, mysticism, and just like being alive.

His performances

have been described as "super intense" (by Morgan) and "out there" (by Morgan’s

mother).

Tickets:

$15; $13 for MoMA / MoMA PS1+ members*

*Includes 2 drinks and delicious light fare courtesy of M. Wells Dinette.

Jonah

Groeneboer,

Double Mouth Feedback

Sunday, December 13, 3:00 p.m.

This public program is organized on the occasion of

Double

Mouth Feed

back

, a multi

channel sound installation by

Jonah Groeneboer

, in collaboration with

Bruno Coviello

made from

a series of prompts asking participants to

manifest their experience of gender

through vocal sound.

January

Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener,

Horizon Event 1

Friday, January 15, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, January 16, 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, January 17, 8:00 p.m.

Horizon Event 1

is a series of evening

length group dances constructed specifically for

the MoMA PS1's third floor main gallery. Partly improvi

sational, the installations are

designed to negotiate proximity and distance, reality and fantasy. Abstraction and

representation collide in queer framings of space, time and bodies

action.

Tickets: $15;

$13 for MoMA / MoMA PS1+ members.

Will Rawls,

make me

[sic

], 2015

Thursday, January 28, 7:00 p.m.

Friday, January 29, 7:00 p.m.

Bracketed within the site of MoMA PS1,

I make me [sic]

is a disclosure of movements,

recollections, mexed missages and other misapprehensive flight.

Will Rawls is a choreogr

apher, performer and writer pursuing abstraction and identity

through the back alleys of dance and history.

Tickets: $15; $13 for MoMA / MoMA PS1+

members.

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February

Morgan Bassichis, Me, But Also Everybody!

Thursday, February 18, 7:00 p.m.

The final even

t in a series of three evenings of practical, relevant, and somewhat moving

stories with Morgan Bassichis and guests.

Bassichis is a writer and performer whose live

comedic work explores history, mysticism, and just like being alive.

His performances

have

been described as "super intense" (by Morgan) and "out there" (by Morgan’s

mother).

Tickets: $15; $13 for MoMA / MoMA PS1+ members*

*Includes 2 drinks and delicious light fare courtesy of M. Wells Dinette.

Fia

Backström

, Aphasia as a visual shape of speak

ing

production and other

language syndromes

Thursday, 25 February, 7:00 p.m.

If language is the global sharing tool, the social gateway, how is a touching and attended

phrase authentic, and if so with subjectivity and/or not?

Fia

Backström is a text ba

sed artist who works across a wide range of media. Since 2011

she has focused on working out the parameters of engagement through her writing and

within group formations.

March

Geo Wyeth,

Storm Excellent Salad

Thursday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.

Friday March 4,

7:00 p.m.

Tennis Player 2.0 talks to Mom with a new instrument. Two women are black, and two

women beat odds with excellence and excellent service and egg salad. Holes in the

servant and the service is on hold. Smile though your heart is breaking.

Tickets

: $15; $13

for MoMA / MoMA PS1+ members.

SPONSORSHIP

Greater New York

is made possible by MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in

Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.

Generous funding is provided by The Contemporary Arts Council o

f The Museum of Modern

Art, The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art, and The Junior Associates of

The Museum of Modern Art.

Additional support is provided by the MoMA PS1 Annual Exhibition Fund.

Special thanks to Elham and Tony Salamé.

SUN

DAY SESSIONS SPONSORSHIP

Sunday Sessions

and the VW Dome at MoMA PS1 are made possible by a partnership with

Volkswagen of America.

Press Contact:

Allison Rodman, (718) 786

3139 or

allison_rodman@moma.org

ess_momaps1@moma.org

For downloadable high

resolution images, register at MoMA.org/press.

MoMAPS1.org • MoMA.org

Hours:

MoMA PS1 is open from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Thursday through Monday. It is

closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.

artbook@MoMA PS1 is open from

1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thursday through Sunday.

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Admission:

$10 suggested donation; $5 for students and senior citizens; free for New

York City residents

, MoMA members and MoMA admission ticket holders. The MoMA

ticket mus

t be presented at MoMA PS1 within thirty days of date on ticket and is not valid

during Warm Up or other MoMA PS1 events or benefits.

Free admission as a Gift to New Yorkers in honor of New York artists, made possible by

the Anna

Maria and Stephen Kellen

Foundation

Through October 15, 2016 all residents of

New York’s five boroughs receive free entrance to all exhibitions during regular museum

hours; excluding concerts, fundraisers, and ticketed events. Upon arrival please present

proof of New York City r

esidency such as a driver’s license, state

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25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Ave in Long Island

City, Queens, across the Queensboro Bridge from midtown Manhattan a

nd is easily

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Square

23 Street; the 7 to 45 Road

Courthouse Square; or the G to Court Sq or 21 St

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MoMA PS1 Background:

MoMA PS1 is one of the largest and oldest organizations in the

United States devoted to cont

emporary art. Established in 1976 by Alanna Heiss, MoMA

PS1 originated from The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, a not

for

profit

organization founded five years prior with the mission of turning abandoned, underutilized

buildings in New York City in

to artist studios and exhibition spaces. P.S.1 Contemporary

Art Center, as it then was known, became an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art in

2000.